TELEDU RECORDS Entire Catalogue as at Monday 30th of August 2004 (ISOFC) | K2 | PD 'Haiwian Eye Melt Down' 7" (Spite | Kinky Music Institute) $6 Don't know anything about any of these outfits, but they sure make a racket. Instrumental and vocal noise with quiet loops and droney interludes to relax the listener before the assault starts anew. 1/3 OCTAVE BAND 'Fading Light From Distant Suns' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $15 "Hot on the heels of a brand new Fusetron 7" comes this full length headswimmer. String driven shiver floating in a lake of orchestral sheen. Hyper-kinetic drones fashioned from the slow moving gracefulness of supersonic spacejunk. Aimless grandeur." - C/Psi/P CD-R. 18TH DYE 'Done' 12" (Matador) $12 A German trio who wrote exquisite pop songs - this was their debut album and damn fine it is too. Sale price. 2 FOOT FLAME 'S/T' 12" (Matador) $12 Sale price. 2 FOOT FLAME 'Ultra Drowning' CD (Matador) $20 A.M. 'McLeod Ganj' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $8 "The first AM-related release to be entirely computer recorded (a big deal for an analogue enthusiast), I am very pleased with this release. All the source sounds come from the 'Tibetan' instruments which were lying around a house I was staying in and were rendered using #indow$ 'sound-recorder32' only. From slow-mo melodic drone, thru' 'sound-collage' to big noise with a few bitty-beats (ye gods!) along the way." - Pseudo Arcana. 3" CD in cardboard sleeve. A.M. 'More Domestic' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $13 "Largely recorded using found lengths of PVC piping the first 3 tracks are what could perhaps be described as (urban) 'shamanic' rites (in psychotic appreciation of the mundane?) Hear A.M. as he dances naked in a winter rain on his porch at 2am. Hear his kitchen sink respond to dripping tap and microtonal flute. Who needs glitchy electronica when you can get sounds like this on a broken taperecorder? Then- just to kick the ladder out- we're suddenly off into an extreme noise piece played 'on' a box received from Witcyst. Pretty cover too." - Pseudo Arcana. CD-R in cardboard sleeve. A.M. 'Strata' CD (Humbug) $15 "Strata collects layered field-recordings, energetic drones and 'almost songs' together to produce (what I hope is...) a transcendent whole." - Antony Milton. The packaging is rather special too, featuring a series of cards inspired by each song. CD-R. A.M. 'The Missing Finger' TAPE (Pseudo Arcana) $7 "A 'Day-Tape' recorded 13-11-2001. 4 individual tracks, huge overdriven 'transitional-zone' muzak through to gestural tape-collage." - Pseudo Arcana. A.M. 'Yet Marvellous Stasis' CD (Haamumaa) $15 "The twin to the 'Strata' release on Humbug. Over 50min of ecstatic organ, drone, remotely recorded minimal guitar and weird almost songs." - Antony Milton. CD-R. AH JONES 'Bastille' CD (Sumac) $20 The debut release (but not first recordings) from Auckland electronic experimentalist Andrew Jones. The first release on an Australian label run by an ex-pat kiwi living in Melbourne. CD-R. AH JONES 'S/T' CD (Sumac) $20 The second release from Auckland electronic experimentalist Andrew Jones, but recorded before the first one if that makes sense. From ambience to abrasion. CD-R. AIRPORT 'Crest95' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $15 "Out of the 'long lost' box. Freshly edited 1995 recordings from the very wayward guitar/electronics duo that eventually gave birth to Birchville Cat Motel. Beguiling atonal plonkery and profound multi-stringed shingle slides by two irrepressible young guns utterly oblivious to the fact that most people wanted to stone them to death with spare change. I can't believe we did this in public." - C/Psi/P CD-R. TETUZI AKIYAMA | RICHARD FRANCIS 'Split' 7" (CMR) $11 A live session recorded in 2002 when Tetuzi Akiyama was playing at NZ festivals. "Richard (aka Eso Steel) plays electronics, microphones and live processing of field recordings, creating a thick canvas background of texture, upon which Tetuzi lays down his prepared amplified acoustic guitar playing. Like a field recording from the cabin of a ghost ship." - CMR Edition of 100. AMERICAN ANALOG SET 'The Fun of Watching Fireworks' CD (Trance Syndicate) $19 AMM 'AMMusic 1966' CD (ReR) $34 AMM 'From A Strange Place' CD (PSF) $26 AMP 'Sirenes' 12" (Petrol) $15 The sublime debut from one of the first Flying Saucer Attack offshoots. Sale price. ARAB STRAP 'Philophobia' CD (Matador) $36 Another Scottish thing that the media in the land of hype seem to be falling over themselves to get near. I'm not sure why cos they sound like a dirty bunch of bastards from the lyrics, but still kinda nice and honest folk pop, or something. ARMPIT 'Birth I Squat' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $15 Reissue of the C/Psi/P cassette by ace Hamilton/Dunedin outfit with Pumice/CJA/you-name-it connections. "Absolutely essential 'songs' man-handled onto tape, then cut and spliced with an axe from 300 feet. Jawdropping." - C/Psi/P CD-R. ARMPIT 'Hot Metal' 7" (20 City) $15 "More addictive guitar drone and noise from CJA and Sugar John now both residing in Dunedin." - 20 City. Lathe-cut acetate. Edition of 48. Last 2 from label. ARMPIT 'Suns Movement Across Darkening Skies / Whiskey Bottle' 7" (Insample) $8 Insample's cranking them out now - two releases in the same year. The usual immaculate presentation has been compromised in the name of speed, but Armpit sounds all the better for being on acetate. These moody almost-instrumentals are their first recordings and are not as sombre as I originally thought before I realised that the record's a 45, not a 33. Members of Armpit have gone on to Pumice, CJA, Thee Ideal Gus and millions more. Lathe cut acetate - edition of 75. ASHTABULA 'The River Of Many Dead Fish' 12" (Siltbreeze) $12 Sale price. THE ASHVINS 'S/T' CD (Spotty Dog) $15 Posthumous album from a Palmy rock band that broke up in '97 after completely losing momentum to do anything. Includes 7 new studio tracks, 3 live recordings and most of their other recordings. CD-R. THE ASHVINS | SHOESHINE 'Wide Load / Heavy load' CD (Spotty Dog) $5 ATARI TEENAGE RIOT 'The Future Of War' CD (Digital Hardcore) $19 AUT 'Fluor' CD (Verbrante Erde) $11 "Using a computer and loops of found sounds, 'Fluor' explores territories of vague lo-fi electrmonic minimalism. Part NZ noise, part cracked techno textures (Mego Records style) in this murky silicon haze." CD-R. Edition of 100. AUT 'S/T' CD (Aut) $15 More Wellington talent rears its head. A stunning debut from solo artist Greg Godwin who slowly tortures guitars, electronics and tape. William Burroughs never sounded like this before. The halfway point between "free noise" and "ambient industrial" if such things exist. CD-R. THE AUTHENTICATORS 'Orbitron Heaven Arrangement' CD (The Animal Kingdom) $17 The first release on Shaun Jury's new label is an hour's worth of loops, guitar noise, samples and keyboards with some pulsing beats thrown in every now and then. Shaun is ex-Aesthetics, All Electric, Drugs vs. Grandchildren and had a hand in running the Dirtlove label until leaving Dunedin for Auckland recently. CD-R. B.A.L.L. 'Period' 12" (Shimmy-Disc) $7 Sale price. B.A.L.L. 'Trouble Doll' 12" (Shimmy-Disc) $7 Includes a Trouble Doll. Sale price. BADWAGGON 'Dawgies Moveen' TAPE (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $6 "Really wild and rockin' power trio rock distortion. Improv-rock from Stoke-On-Trent. " - BWCD. BARDO POND 'Amanita' CD (Matador) $29 The most accessible of their first three albums but still plenty swirly enough. Pass the bong. BC 'Dog / Constricted' 7" (Root Don Lonie For Cash) $16 Lathe cut acetate. BDE 'Moist Graves' TAPE (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $6 "Reek of putrefaction from the 80's power electronics revival tent." - BWCD. Subliminal oscillating siren sounds with extraneous sounds over the top that underpin rumbling white noise - the overall effect is strangely soothing and fantastic for driving in the rain. SANDRA BELL 'Angel' 7" (Zabriskie Point) $7 BIG BLACK 'Hammer Party' CD (Touch & Go) $25 The first three EP's (Lungs, Bulldozer, Racer X). BIG BLACK 'Headache' 12" (Touch & Go) $17 Four fine rock songs. Plenty of ching for your buck. BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL 'Grey Wolves Gather / Blue Jewel Drift' 7" (Secret Safari) $10 Wellingtonian Campbell Kneale produces something far more meaningful than should be possible with even his deft manipulation of a toy karaoke microphone. Lathe cut acetate. Edition of 103. BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL 'Home' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $21 "Its where the heart is. And sure enough, the mostly acoustic, found-sound tinkles and top-end shimmer situated herein shall indeed warm the cockles of yours. The sound of curling up in your favourite turtleneck sweater, beside a cracking good fire and reading a good book." - Campbell Kneale. CD-R. Edition of 30. BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL 'Jewelled Wings' 12" (Freedom From) $22 BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL 'Shapeshifter' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $15 "A spine-tingling exploration of live, unamplified sound representing all the great recordings that couldn't be crammed onto the Freedom From LP. A levitational experience fashioned from several truckloads of domestic debris. Like listening to the sun go down." - C/Psi/P CD-R. BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL 'We Count These Prayers...' CD (Corpus Hermeticum) $20 "With this release, BCM enters the realm of 'heavenly stasis', with a sound so elevated and extended that it becomes, for the duration of the listening experience, 'sound' itself. Grainy textures abound to the virtual exclusion of actual content, and this is a good thing. Most of the sound sources are acoustic instruments or toys of various sorts, allied with some drones and tones of an electronic origin - its simply sublime to swim in." - Bruce Russell THE BIRTHDAY PARTY 'Prayers On Fire' CD (Mute | Shock) $23 BLOWHOLE 'Killing Noise' 12" (Zabriskie Point) $16 BLUE DUCHESS | GRUVSHEK II 'Split' TAPE (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $6 "Two Minneapolean toy instrument punk brut ensembles. The bands hate(d) each other and were most displeased to find themselves on the same tape. Serves them right for both sending me 23 minute "one-sided" masters. Economy is what drives us Brits." - BWCD BLUMFELD 'L'etat et Moi' CD (Big Cat) $5 Sale price. BONGO BUNNY 'S/T' 12" (Secret Safari) $20 Solo debut by a young improviser from Palmerston North, New Zealand. Only a couple of these back in stock. Lathe cut acetate. Edition of 52. BOREDOMS 'Super Roots 6' CD (Reprise) $29 BOSS CHRIST 'Who's the Boss?' TAPE (Stink Magnetic) $10 A solo outing from the Pro-Drag drummer and Side Effects guitarist, if that makes sense. Comes in a vivid yellow bag and has OHP's of the lyrics, which you know will come in handy. BRAINIAC 'Hissing Prigs in Static Couture' 12" (Touch & Go) $12 Geek power. Trans Am, Girls Against Boys, Devo - you get the picture. Sale price. ANDREAS BRANDAL | JARLE NORDVIK 'Lie on Superwater / The Generous Weeper' 7" (Smalltown Supersound) $8 More of a staccato attack than drone from this 1998 collaboration on one of the best Norwegian labels around. BREEDERS 'Last Splash' CD (4AD) $18 BROADCAST CHOIR 'Songs that Sunk the Titanic' 7" (Palace) $9 BRONSON COMET LIGHTER 'Gin, The Imperial Vodka' 7" (Bronson) $7 A Norwegian outfit who tread post-rock/Velvets territory with finesse and no haste - three instrumental tracks. BROTHER JT & VIBROLUX 'Invocation' 7" (Siltbreeze) $4 One mighty fine psych track spread over 2 sides. BROTHER JT & VIBROLUX 'Music For The Other Head' 12" (Siltbreeze) $15 CD (Siltbreeze) $19 Sale price. BROTHER LOVE 'My Own Worst Enemy' 12" (New World of Sound) $15 The follow-up to the sublime one-sider, "Every Garden Grows One" - this one is also a beautiful meandering psychedelic shambles. Sale price. BROTHER LOVE 'Rock 'n' Roll Criminal' CD (September Gurls) $15 Bro tentatively feels around less psychedelic territory for the first time. Nervously unsure swagger. Sale price. BROWN VELVET COUCH 'Once in a Very Blue Moon' 7" (Roof Bolt) $6 THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS 'Hairway To Steven' CD (Touch & Go) $15 CAKEKITCHEN 'Everything's Going to Work Out Just Fine' 12" (Freek) $19 CAKEKITCHEN 'Far From The Sun' CD (Raffmond) $29 CAKEKITCHEN 'Stomping Through The Boneyard' 12" (Raffmond) $12 Sale price. NEIL CAMPBELL | CAMPBELL KNEALE 'Collaboration' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $22 "Two guys who lived in the same street, in the same suburb, on different sides of the globe fiddle about with each others unfinished tapes for about three years and pop out an extremely ambitious collection of multiple-fidelity drone, shimmer & tinkle, and stereo carnage that easily ranks with the best that either of the participants have created on their own. Its pretty clear that the universe has pre-ordained this pairing of souls since the dawn of time, and smiled kindly upon their meager efforts to entertain and amuse the record buying public. Come, partake of their very impressive Feng Shui." - Campbell Kneale. NEIL CAMPBELL | CAMPBELL KNEALE 'Split' 7" (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $18 Smart people on opposite sides of the world figure out they have the same names in a different order and perform a side each. Campbell is better known as Wellington's Birchville Cat Motel, while Neil is known as a Scottish improvisor of no mean ability. Lathe cut acetate. CANE SLIDE 'Stop Look Listen' CD (Wrong Records) $20 A full-length from the most relaxed pop-band from Auckland. "Think Velvet Underground, Beach Boys, The Chills, Yo La Tengo and you've got the feel of the georgous pop delight that is the sweet sound of Cane Slide. This record is full of melodies that endear themselves without overstaying their welcome, which is a fine virtue in a pop record. Understated elegant and catchy as hell." - Pavement Magazine. CD-R. CANE SLIDE VS CABBAGE BOMBER 'Sloppy Pop Wars' CD (Humbucker) $12 CD-R THE CANNANES 'Stump Vision' 7" (Ajax) $5 Twee Aussie pop. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS 'The First Born Is Dead' CD (Mushroom) $12 CHAIN GANG 'Perfumed' CD (Matador) $15 THE CHANDELIERS 'Live! At the Southern Cross' CD (Stink Magnetic) $10 3 instrumentals from this cabaret-garage (?) outfit, recorded live in Wgtn's ex-student bar (maybe it still is one, but they never had good bands playing there on the odd occasion I stopped in for a draught. CD-R. CHRISTOPHER CHARLES | OVAL 'Dok' CD (Thrill Jockey) $32 CHROME CRANKS 'S/T' CD (PCP) $25 CHUG 'Sassafras' CD (Flying Nun) $12 Sale price. CICADA 'Backstab / Bones' 7" (Mr Banger) $9 Auckland slowcore-pop-rock band. Lathe-cut acetate. CJA 'Headache' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $15 "Originally released on cassette by Plop Recordings in 1993, this is the most single-minded and emotionally scouring solo work of Armpit guitar-baker, Clayton Noone. Infuriating and uplifting, this near-religious release will make it rain wherever you are. The very, very, gone-est 'bedroom' record ever made." - C/Psi/P CD-R. JAY CLARKSON 'Kindle' CD (Arclife) $18 Nine tracks released in 1999 by this long-time participant of the Dunedin scene. CLAY 'Catcher' TAPE (Really Big) $9 Before La Gloria, David Coventry was in Clay. I saw these guys in Wellington when they blew Fugazi off the stage. No-one agreed with me, but it sure as hell happened that way. CLEAN 'Oddities 1' TAPE (Clean) $9 A bunch of, uh, Oddities from the Clean. CLOUDBOY 'Down at the End of the Garden' CD (Arclife | Cloudboy | Loop) $21 Subdued pop from this Demarnia Lloyd-led Dunedin outfit. From simple melodies laid bare to unusual instruments combining to form a haunting atmosphere. Maybe something like equal parts Broadcast, Tricky, Portishead and Solex without all the beats. CM ENSEMBLE 'Love Central' CD (Metonymic) $14 The membership of CM ensemble revolve around Nick Hodgson (ex-Montessauri), and this release "encapsulates the different shades in CM music from fiery jazz and rock free play to levitational floating drones". CONSUMER ELECTRONICS | MERZBOW 'Horn Of The Goat' CD (Freek) $32 Skullflower/Merzbow collaboration that exceeds the sum of parts. CORTINA 'Live' TAPE (Stink Magnetic) $5 Blondie meets Ministry (Psalm 69, natch) at the bottom of a swamp. CRASS 'Yes Sir, I Will' CD (Crass) $15 CRAWL UNIT 'Vs. Silence' CD (Manifold) $25 CREVICE '2' CD (Uncle Buzz) $25 CRUDE 'Worlds Worst Saxophone Solos vol 48' 8" (Crawlspace) $16 "Recently Matt Middleton (ka CRUDE) made a journey up country to support SONIC YOUTH with his crooner rock group THE AESTHETICS. He also gave us the fine honour of playing a session of seriously fucked up jazz saxophone instore, of which two tracks appear on this Artist Series release." - Crawlspace. DADAMAH 'This Is Not A Dream' CD (Kranky) $29 DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE | ERG | MSBR 'Geosynclines' CD (Flenix) $20 The result of music exchanged between Japan's MSBR and United States' Erg, with France's DSM performing the final editing. These electronic compositions range from minimal experimentalism to unabashed brutality - just like the forces of earth. "Successions of stratified sediments and extruded material accumulated over time". "Inspired three-way collaboration of glittering rough-hewn shards of sound, beautifully and spaciously-placed." - BWCD. THE DEAD C 'Repent' CD (Siltbreeze) $24 THE DEAD C 'The White House' 12" (Siltbreeze) $23 DEL 'No Escape from the Valley of the Cannibals' 7" (Killer) $6 Norwegian noise over the soundtrack from a rhythmic jungle movie, maybe. Nice thick green vinyl, if that matters. DIDJITS 'Full Nelson Reilly' CD (Touch & Go) $12 Sale price. DIDJITS 'Hornet Pinata' CD (Touch & Go) $12 Sale price. DISLOCATION 'Coyotes Call' 12" (Fusetron) $23 Japanese skronk. DISSOLVE 'That That Is... Is (Not)' CD (Kranky) $27 DOE 'S/T' CD (20 City) $22 "Formerly known as Three. Subdued and processed hums and sounds. Beautifully peaceful." - 20 City. CD-R. DOG LIVER OIL 'Nasal Distortion' TAPE (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $6 "Half an hour of swirling noise chaos from Uganda 1974-via-Stoke 1996." - BWCD. Electronic fiddlery, subtle tinkering and more noisy excursions. One sided tape. DOLDRUMS 'Acupuncture' CD (Kranky) $26 DOLDRUMS 'Secret Life Of Machines' CD (VHF) $22 DON CABALLERO 'What Burns Never Returns' CD (Touch & Go) $30 DRILL 'Happy Home' 7" (Flying Nun) $6 DUSTDEVILS 'Extant' 7" (Matador) $5 E/OR 'Mike' 7" (Palace) $8 ALEC EMPIRE 'Generation Starwars' CD (Mille Plateaux) $19 ERG | MSBR | DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE 'Geosynclines' CD (Flenix) $20 The result of music exchanged between Japan's MSBR and United States' Erg, with France's DSM performing the final editing. These electronic compositions range from minimal experimentalism to unabashed brutality - just like the forces of earth. "Successions of stratified sediments and extruded material accumulated over time". "Inspired three-way collaboration of glittering rough-hewn shards of sound, beautifully and spaciously-placed." - BWCD. ESO STEEL | MINORU YONEMOTO 'Split' 8" (20 City) $18 Drones and clicks from NZ's Eso-Steel backed with polyrhythmic drumming, machinery noises, and Omit-like treatments from the Japanese artist. Both recorded in Japan, the former in 2000, the latter in 1994. Lathe-cut acetate. Edition of 60. Last 2 from label. ESO STEEL 'Technology of Sleep' 12" (20 City) $20 "First full length vinyl release for this New Zealand artist. Electro-acoustic sound works using home appliances, movements, bliks and scrawl." - 20 City. Subtly shifting hum, buzz, drone and clicks. One side sounds like technology, the other... sleep. Sale price. ESO STEEL 'The Agents' CD (20 City) $18 Low rumbly drone produced by guitar and electronics by a displaced kiwi in Japan. CD-R. EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RESEARCH (E.A.R.) 'Phenomena 256' CD (Sympathy For The Record Industry) $23 EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RESEARCH (E.A.R.) 'The Koner Experiment' CD (Space Age) $27 FEAST OF STEVENS 'S/T' TAPE (Blind Eel) $5 FIBO-TRESPO 'Ez Az Elektromos' 12" (Sandnes) $12 Norwegian experimental duo including Kjetil Brandsdal blending rock, tasteful noodling and electronic cheese. Good drinking music. Sale price. Sale price. FIBO-TRESPO 'Middle-class slobs play improv.' TAPE (Kylie Productions) $15 A Norwegian conglomerate (featuring the ubiquitous K. D. Brandsdal) experimenting with instruments, non-pumping rhythms and found sounds. The closest music to New Zealand's without being in the Pacific. FINAL 'Urge/Fail' 7" (Fever Pitch Music) $6 A fine example of the solo experimental music Justin Broadrick has been creating since the demise of Godflesh. Slightly soiled cover. FIST 'Skinshed' CD (Death Threat) $12 CD-R FLIES INSIDE THE SUN 'An Audience Of Others (Including Herself)' CD (Kranky) $32 FLIES INSIDE THE SUN 'Cactus Sky' CD (Metonymic) $23 "New title from the quartet Flies, featuring Stapleton, Pieters, Butt and Crook. This has recordings from 1996-99 and purveys the same air of aural mystery we have come to expect from the Metonymical stable. Excellent stuff that cries out to be explored by all ears." - Bruce Russell. FLIES INSIDE THE SUN 'Le Mal d'Archive' CD (Metonymic) $24 "Four long and quite distinct improvisations from 1999 (there's even a drum machine abused on one track). By the trio of Brian Crook, Kim Pieters, and Peter Stapleton.... total running time 52 min. New material from this lot is always welcome (since the demise of parallel outfit Rain). This includes some material on the more aggressive side. Fiery front line noise improv from NZ." - H Corp. FLIES INSIDE THE SUN 'S/T' CD (Metonymic) $26 Long since deleted, one copy back in stock. RICHARD FRANCIS | TETUZI AKIYAMA 'Split' 7" (CMR) $11 A live session recorded in 2002 when Tetuzi Akiyama was playing at NZ festivals. "Richard (aka Eso Steel) plays electronics, microphones and live processing of field recordings, creating a thick canvas background of texture, upon which Tetuzi lays down his prepared amplified acoustic guitar playing. Like a field recording from the cabin of a ghost ship." - CMR Edition of 100. FREE KITTEN 'Sentimental Education' CD (Pearl Necklace) $19 Sale price. FROITHEAD 'Grinding Stone' CD (Yellow Bike) $9 FROSTY 'Liquor Drink' CD (Menlo Park) $31 Raw depraved rock 'n' roll from the final third of the unholy Miami hate trinity to come to my attention (the other 2/3 being Harry Pussy and To Live & Shave in LA). Recorded with all levels peaking in the early Pussy Galore style. GAFIA 'S/T' 8" (Secret Safari) $11 Most of a performance played live to air on Radio Massey in 1999 by Ms Noctuary and the Teledude. Lathe cut acetate. Edition of 52. ALASTAIR GALBRAITH 'Mirrorwork' CD (Emperor Jones) $26 GASTR DEL SOL 'The Serpentine Similar' 12" (Drag City) $23 GHOSTDAD '4' TAPE (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $6 "Lots of recycled turntable exorcism and audio tape tract frenzy." - BWCD. Cut-ups, incessant loops and samples that mess with the meaning of melody. Overlaid bleeps and string-noises add to the confusion. Both the labels have fallen off this tape, but there's no track listing, so I don't suppose that matters too much. GOBLIN MIX 'S/T' 12" (Flying Nun) $11 No picture sleeve. GODHEADSILO 'Skyward In Triumph' CD (Sub Pop) $15 Sale price. THE GRIFTERS 'Queen Of The Table Waters' 7" (Sub Pop) $3 Sale price. GRIMBLE GRUMBLE 'S/T' 10" (Burnt Hair) $12 Psych rock. Sale price. GRUVSHEK II | BLUE DUCHESS 'Split' TAPE (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $6 "Two Minneapolean toy instrument punk brut ensembles. The bands hate(d) each other and were most displeased to find themselves on the same tape. Serves them right for both sending me 23 minute "one-sided" masters. Economy is what drives us Brits." - BWCD PAUL GUILFORD 'Raw Fa' CD (Tempo Kannan Bail) $19 A kiwi who's been resident in Texas and hanging out with those Wholly Other (Charalambides et al) folks for a while. Fourteen tracks of quality electronic squeal and buzz packaged in handscreened covers. Sale price. KEIJI HAINO 'Beginning And End, Interwoven' CD (Streamline) $34 A HANDFUL OF DUST 'Jerusalem, Street of Graves' CD (Corpus Hermeticum) $20 "Urban Psychogeography" if the spine is to be believed. Compiles material from the Topology tape with the support performance for Tony Conrad in 1997. HARRY DEATH 'Live Too' CD (Burning) $9 Sale price. HI-GOD PEOPLE 'Play to The Temple of Depth' CD (Spill | FTSM) $19 The second full-length from this Melbourne outfit with a fairly fluid membership revolving around Greg Wadley and Julian Williams. Simplistic but effective packaging. Oh yeah - there's enhanced CD-Rom stuff too. HI-GOD PEOPLE 'S/T / Soundtrack to the Movie "Nega - The Eight Headed Serpent"' CD (Varispeed) $28 One of the best Australian improv releases I've heard - unselfconscious, meandering, dense but not complicated. Two releases compiled on one CD. HIATUS 'Live at the High Street Project' TAPE (High Tension House) $7 "Performed to a rapturous round of deafening silence, art gallery go-ers go to pains to retain their carefully practiced looks of cool indifference in the face of Hiatus's psychedelic onslaught. Features guest star Jewel. The Hiatus track is backed with "Music" by HN from High Tension House's first record." HIATUS 'Play Some Real Music' TAPE (High Tension House) $6 "Christchurch's finest free jizz trio create enough nervous tension to collapse the Auckland Harbour bridge. Title provided by a heckler who appeared to have come straight out of a Guns'n'Roses video." HIGH DEPENDENCY UNIT (HDU) 'CrossChannelMultiTap' CD (Flying Nun) $17 The second full length from Dunedin's kings of discordant pop swirl. HIGH RISE 'Dispersion' CD (Squealer) $30 American reissue of the classic psychedelic rock outfit from Japan - previously on PSF Records. HONEYMOON KILLERS 'Sing Sing' CD (Sympathy For The Record Industry) $27 Compilation of a bunch of stuff from impossible to find records. Double CD. Sale price. CHARLES HORN 'Philips 60w 230-240v Green' TAPE (High Tension House) $7 "Light bulb music. Soundtrack to an installation at the Neumerz gallery in Illinois, USA." THE HUMAN INSTINCT 'Stoned Guitar' CD (Ascension) $34 At last you can buy a Human Instinct album without having to sell your soul or mortgage your house. The entire back catalogue of this cult NZ 60's psychedelic band (featuring Billy T.K. - the NZ Hendrix) has been reissued. I have it on good authority that this is the best one, so where better to start? THE IDEAL GUS 'Thumb Point / Pollen Island' 7" (Stabbies and the Rocket) $14 Pumice and CJA get together for a "rockin' rumble and croon". Lathe cut acetate. IN THE WRONG 'S/T' CD (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers | Climax | Sunship | Freedom From... | Ignivomous) $14 Minneapolis release centred around Emil Hagstrom and John Vance. 33 tracks of meandering tunes, rock intravaganzas, minimum noodling and occassional drones - fantastic. Double CD in thin foldover cover. INCA EYEBALL 'I've Just Come in Off the Boat' 7" (Fusetron) $8 INTO THE VOID 'S/T' CD (Flying Nun) $19 ISOMER 'Sedation' TAPE (Shame File) $9 "Adelaide's David Tonkin has released a quite stunning collection of dark soundscapes infiltrated with minimalist rhythms and sample dialogues. If you want to hear the best Australia has to offer in dark experimental sound, there is no better place to start than here." - Shame File ISOMER 'Serpent Age' CD (Shame File) $14 "Australia's finest dark noise/ambient artist makes a triumphant transistion from cassette to CD, and his dark subtle sounds benefit no end. Eight new dark soundscapes bordering on the orchestral and even darkwave in places." - Shame File ISOMER 'The Lotus Eaters' TAPE (Shame File) $9 "Concise and focused follow-up to "Sedation", demonstrating incredible control of minimal dark sound and overwhelming, engulfing noise. Once again, Isomer where its at in dark experimental." - Shame File JACKNIFE 'Real Folk Blues (for the Broke Generation)' 10" (Sympathy For The Record Industry) $12 Raw rock 'n' roll from LA. Sale price. JAWLOAD 'Seedy' CD (Kato) $12 Wellington garage rock - precursor of Hasselhoff Experiment. Sale price. JESSAMINE 'The Long Arm of Coincidence' CD (Kranky) $32 JOHNNY HASH 'Summer of Cum / Rat Pe(d/t)al' 7" (In The Red) $7 K GROUP | OMIT 'Storage' 12" (Fusetron) $26 "Not a split release by these two New Zealand artists, but a collaboration. The weapons of choice are analogue synthesizers and the approach is slowly unfolding drones and drifting veils of sound that part and close across the listener's third ear like storms on the surface of Jupiter. During 2000 and 2001 this pair of Hidden Masters turned their efforts towards late-night kitchen jam sessions during their holiday moments. In these each would fire up an antiquated analogue synth and the resulting aural collisions would be recorded on a handy hard drive, then tweaked, inverted, eq'd and edited to produce the immaculate slabs of sound contained within the tiny grooves of this ludicrously out-dated analogue sound-reproducing format." - Bruce Russell. K-GROUP | OMIT 'Slow Movement' 7" (Colourful Clouds for Acoustics) $8 Collaboration between two staples of the NZ improv scene. K2 | PD | (ISOFC) 'Haiwian Eye Melt Down' 7" (Spite | Kinky Music Institute) $6 Don't know anything about any of these outfits, but they sure make a racket. Instrumental and vocal noise with quiet loops and droney interludes to relax the listener before the assault starts anew. KANT 'Non Plus Ultra' 7" (Mykedroner) $9 Experimental Norwegian artist - highly recommended. KARP 'I'm Done' 7" (Kill Rock Stars) $5 Capital 'R' for Rock - from the same time and headspace as GodHeadSilo at their peak - this7" is one of their finest moments "This is not a fatal beating for you." KING KONG 'Me Hungry' CD (Drag City) $19 KITSET 'Testpot' CD (Arclife) $18 Carrying the NZ pop flag high, this fresh Dunedin three-piece pulls out a lovely bunch of songs. Can the tour story about their guitarist selling his little finger in Amsterdam for ten grand be true? CAMPBELL KNEALE | NEIL CAMPBELL 'Collaboration' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $22 "Two guys who lived in the same street, in the same suburb, on different sides of the globe fiddle about with each others unfinished tapes for about three years and pop out an extremely ambitious collection of multiple-fidelity drone, shimmer & tinkle, and stereo carnage that easily ranks with the best that either of the participants have created on their own. Its pretty clear that the universe has pre-ordained this pairing of souls since the dawn of time, and smiled kindly upon their meager efforts to entertain and amuse the record buying public. Come, partake of their very impressive Feng Shui." - Campbell Kneale. CAMPBELL KNEALE | GREG LARKING | PETE LARKING | ANTONY MILTON | PAUL WICKHAM 'Siren Performance' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $13 "With Campbell Kneale (electronics), Paul Wickham (guitar) and Pete Larking (bass). Not to be confused with the 'Siren's' cassette, (tho' liable to be...) this recording documents a sound installation that was in place at the Enjoy Gallery in Wellington in 2000. 4 identical CD's with simple oscillating tones as sampled and manipulated from a historical recording of an air-raid siren were played slightly out of sync with each other in order to produce a complex sound environment. The exhibition was closed with the improvised performance that is also documented on this recording." - Pseudo Arcana. CD-R. CAMPBELL KNEALE | NEIL CAMPBELL 'Split' 7" (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $18 Smart people on opposite sides of the world figure out they have the same names in a different order and perform a side each. Campbell is better known as Wellington's Birchville Cat Motel, while Neil is known as a Scottish improvisor of no mean ability. Lathe cut acetate. KNEALE-KUWAYAMA 'Under Nagoya' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $15 "A fleeting, all-acoustic encounter literally centimetres beneath a bustling Nagoya motorway with the enigmatic Mr Kuwayama Kiyoharu, the driving force behind Japan's 'Lethe' festival and Pale Disc label. Urban shamanism and hymns of abandon, the metallic remnants of post-war reconstruction glisten and agitate, ghost tyres, burning embers..." - C/Psi/P CD-R. KNURL 'Dimorphic Multiplicity' TAPE (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $6 Multi-textured noise from Canada, packaged in airpipe and acetate and limited to 60 copies. From the "Are You Sane Enough To Drive" series of noise cassettes in special packaging. KOSTAS D'LARY 'The 2nd Intermediate Nylon Theatre International' TAPE (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $6 "Solo piano excursion from someone you may have seen losing miserably with Richard Youngs on 'The Great Antiques Hunt'." - BWCD. Piano and percussion combine nicely in these three long low-key improvisations recorded in 1995. KUKL 'The Eye' CD (Crass) $15 Pre-Sugarcubes release on Crass Sale price. LA GLORIA 'Jeremiad' CD (Furry Bear | Freedom From...) $20 CD (Furry Bear | Freedom From...) $20 Eleven tracks of Marcel Bear (Empirical, ex-Thela) and David Coventry (ex-Clay, ex-Cattle) playing a variety of experimental instruments and guitar respectively. Very 'nice' clean recording, and similar to Coventry's engineering of the Thela debut makes it more easy to access the music without betraying its intent. Cardboard cover. LABRADFORD 'S/T' CD (Kranky) $29 Brick pipes rolling, guitars drifting in and out of consciousness - Labradford at their finest. GREG LARKING | PETE LARKING | ANTONY MILTON | PAUL WICKHAM | CAMPBELL KNEALE 'Siren Performance' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $13 "With Campbell Kneale (electronics), Paul Wickham (guitar) and Pete Larking (bass). Not to be confused with the 'Siren's' cassette, (tho' liable to be...) this recording documents a sound installation that was in place at the Enjoy Gallery in Wellington in 2000. 4 identical CD's with simple oscillating tones as sampled and manipulated from a historical recording of an air-raid siren were played slightly out of sync with each other in order to produce a complex sound environment. The exhibition was closed with the improvised performance that is also documented on this recording." - Pseudo Arcana. CD-R. PETE LARKING | ANTONY MILTON | PAUL WICKHAM | CAMPBELL KNEALE | GREG LARKING 'Siren Performance' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $13 "With Campbell Kneale (electronics), Paul Wickham (guitar) and Pete Larking (bass). Not to be confused with the 'Siren's' cassette, (tho' liable to be...) this recording documents a sound installation that was in place at the Enjoy Gallery in Wellington in 2000. 4 identical CD's with simple oscillating tones as sampled and manipulated from a historical recording of an air-raid siren were played slightly out of sync with each other in order to produce a complex sound environment. The exhibition was closed with the improvised performance that is also documented on this recording." - Pseudo Arcana. CD-R. LATE 'The Thomas Gordon EP' 8" (20 City) $18 American Matthew St. Germain (Freedom From... head honcho) dishes up a serving of minimalist recordings. "aka Field Recordings vol 1, this has 4 very quiet pieces based on field recordings of amp, cd, car/radio and rain/tape recorder. Spans time periods of 1996 to 1999 and is sort-of strictly hands off by Late." - Freedom From... Lathe-cut acetate. Edition of 60. Last 2 from label. BRIAN LAVELLE | RICHARD YOUNGS 'Radios 2' CD (Freek) $35 ALAN LICHT 'The Evan Dando of Noise' CD (Corpus Hermeticum) $20 LIGHT 'Tenth Planet Rock / Provisions' 7" (Wurlitzer Jukebox) $9 Ex-Flying Saucer Attack. LIGHT 'Turning' 12" (Wurlitzer Jukebox) $17 Ex-Flying Saucer Attack. Slight cover damage. LISA CLEMENT TRIO 'Mommy Can I Go Play With Hannah' TAPE (High Tension House) $7 "Kokoko mushimushimeemee keijialadente arkeeda mina darby." THE LIVIDS 'Cheviot' 7" (Cabbage Tree) $10 Mid-nineties Palmy pop. Lathe-cut. THE LIVIDS 'Oroua Downs' CD (Spotty Dog) $14 DEMARNIA LLOYD 'Trace EP' CD (Arclife) $10 Six tracks from this ethereal solo musician from Dunedin who everyone was asking about after the release of Alastair Galbraith's single and the Runner compilation. Released in 2000, but the first time I've had in it in stock. Sparse and haunting. The package is constructed entirely (and enticingly) from thick tracing paper. LUGOSI 'Yellow #5 Aluminium Lake / Mica' 7" (Secret Safari) $10 Beautifully understated layers of pulse and drone, backed with a less sumptuous track reminiscent of a wintery sunday afternoon in front of the heater. Lugosi includes Birchville Cat Motel's Campbell Kneale. Lathe cut acetate. MAGNOG 'S/T' 12" (Kranky) $26 A definition of the whole "Space Rock" thing. Double LP. MANTIS 'Grits, Dummy' 7" (Drag City) $8 One of Drag City's many fine releases from the mid 90's - angular pop kinda like the Grifters at their best that hits all the right buttons for me. MARCHETTI | NOETINGER | WERCHOWSKI 'S/T' CD (Corpus Hermeticum) $20 "These guys are in the fore-front of non-institutional electrocoustic music in France, these trio performances were recorded live on tour in 1998. Two half-hour slabs of solid improv el/ac music that'll open your ears good. Includes an excellent essay by Michel Henritzi, where he posits this as a 'dialogue between chance and the deaf' - couldn't put it better myself." - H Corp. MARINEVILLE 'Ready for the Dance' CD (Oak Park) $20 Slick presentation of country-ish pop songs with moments that bring Red Crayola, Bailter Space and mellower 3D's songs to mind. Although I almost hit "repeat 1" when they held a great groove on the final track, it didn't grab me instantly - but I suspect this is one that gradually grows on you. "Excellent rock band from Wellington with sights fixed firmly on the 70's. This covers the ground between early Go-Betweens and Television, and they cover 'Final Solution' live, which gives you even more of an idea. Pretty worthwhile song writing, incendiary playing, decent non-flashy production make this well worth examination. No I don't mean its 'retro', its just situated in the frame of reference of a specific era." - Bruce Russell. MASAKI BATOH 'Kikaokubeshi' 12" (Now Sound, The) $23 The second solo effort from this member of Japanese psych-gurus, Ghost. No hippy folk music here however - It's "a treatise on hum, grain, drone and spirit"..."Grand in scope and intent". Nice thick vinyl. MC5 'Teen Age Lust' 12" (Total Energy) $23 The Saginaw Civic Center show from Jan 1, 1970. A well-oiled machine producing much power on this excellent document of an under-appreciated period. JAMIE MCNAIR 'Ocean Dictionaries' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $21 "New Zealander Jamie McNair presents what I believe is his debut release of supremely underwhelming surface noise. Geographic minutae is carefully polished and stored away like little audio treasures to be marvelled at on future ocassions. Two wonderfully microcosmic pieces that would sit well along side records by K Mitzutani, Steve Roden, or Toy Bizarre." - Campbell Kneale. CD-R. Edition of 30. MECCA NORMAL 'Dovetail' CD (K) $15 1992 release from Jean Smith and David Lester. The earlier albums were less easy to listen to (or maybe I just got used to it?), but are more rewarding once you get your teeth into them. 11 tracks. Sale price. MECCA NORMAL 'Flood Plain' CD (K) $15 1993 album - 11 tracks. Sale price. MECCA NORMAL 'Sitting On Snaps' CD (Matador) $12 1995 release including contributions by Peter Jefferies. Digipak cover. Sale price. MECCA NORMAL 'Who Shot Elvis?' 12" (Matador) $10 CD (Matador) $12 1997 release featuring Peter Jefferies. Sale price. MERZBOW | CONSUMER ELECTRONICS 'Horn Of The Goat' CD (Freek) $32 Skullflower/Merzbow collaboration that exceeds the sum of parts. MERZBOW 'Rainbow Electronics 2' CD (Dexter's Cigar) $33 One of the finest by this Japanese pioneer of noise (although I guess one person's noise is another person's... uh, noise). MESTAR 'Steamer EP' CD (Arclife) $10 The six track follow-up to the 1998 debut from this clean, catchy energetic pop trio from Dunedin. Cardboard cover. ANTONY MILTON 'February 2001' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $13 "A collection of surprisingly listenable sound essay's about noise/ experimental/ art/ 'out' music... From ambient glitch electro through extreme noise to immersive static drift, (with a couple of 'songs' thrown in). Single take recordings onto home-stereo." - Pseudo Arcana. CD-R in cardboard sleeve. ANTONY MILTON 'Near / Far' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $15 "A new voice in the new-wave of the old New Zealand thing. Back-corner architecture and back-lit landscapes presented as foreground features. Picture postcards of picture postcards for those who know that postcards are not about pictures. Quality contemplation conduit." - C/Psi/P CD-R. ANTONY MILTON | PAUL WICKHAM | CAMPBELL KNEALE | GREG LARKING | PETE LARKING 'Siren Performance' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $13 "With Campbell Kneale (electronics), Paul Wickham (guitar) and Pete Larking (bass). Not to be confused with the 'Siren's' cassette, (tho' liable to be...) this recording documents a sound installation that was in place at the Enjoy Gallery in Wellington in 2000. 4 identical CD's with simple oscillating tones as sampled and manipulated from a historical recording of an air-raid siren were played slightly out of sync with each other in order to produce a complex sound environment. The exhibition was closed with the improvised performance that is also documented on this recording." - Pseudo Arcana. CD-R. MINIT 'cc / bb' 12" (Sigma Editions) $25 Sydney electronic improvisational duo that includes Torben Tilly (ex-The Garbage and the Flowers) - hums, clicks, subtly shifting sounds. MINORU YONEMOTO | ESO STEEL 'Split' 8" (20 City) $18 Drones and clicks from NZ's Eso-Steel backed with polyrhythmic drumming, machinery noises, and Omit-like treatments from the Japanese artist. Both recorded in Japan, the former in 2000, the latter in 1994. Lathe-cut acetate. Edition of 60. Last 2 from label. MONOSTADT 3 'Experiment 7.3' CD (no label) $26 An hour's worth of uneasy listening from a 3-piece featuring Adris Hoyos (ex-Harry Pussy). Violin, drums and cat (? - guitar I think) combine to create a dense inescapable noise. Not as fast as I'd been led to believe by other reviews - "difficult-core" rather than hardcore. Artwork features more programming geek flow charts that Adris seems to be obsessed with lately. ROY MONTGOMERY 'Scenes From The South Island' CD (Drunken Fish) $30 Debut solo LP. MOONSHAKE 'The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow' 12" (Too Pure) $7 Sale price. MOREPORK 'Let the Marketplace Fall Bleeding' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $15 8 tracks of damaged pop that are all over in 25 minutes. Punkier than Pumice, noisier than pop. Refreshing. "Armpit string-slinger, Clayton Noone sidles up to the crap-trap assault of Mr Sterile's Kieran Monaghan for a concise kiwi fistful of scouring junk-punk greatness. Scunge-rock from the top shelf - two thumbs up!" - C/Psi/P CD-R. MR EPP 'Ridiculing The Apocalypse' CD (Super Electro) $15 Pre-Mudhoney & Steelpole Bathtub, there was a silly, sloppy punk rock band whose entire history is chronicled here. Sale price. DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE | ERG | MSBR 'Geosynclines' CD (Flenix) $20 The result of music exchanged between Japan's MSBR and United States' Erg, with France's DSM performing the final editing. These electronic compositions range from minimal experimentalism to unabashed brutality - just like the forces of earth. "Successions of stratified sediments and extruded material accumulated over time". "Inspired three-way collaboration of glittering rough-hewn shards of sound, beautifully and spaciously-placed." - BWCD. MSBR 'Ultimate Ambience 2' CD (20 City) $22 Three long pieces from one of Japan's finest and most prolific electronic noisicians. Rather than simply going for total sensory overload, emphasis is placed on the generation of sounds and development of links between them - describing it as ultimate ambience is pushing it a bit far though. Cardboard cover. MUKILTEO FAIRIES 'Special Rites' 7" (Kill Rock Stars) $8 MY DEVIANT DAUGHTER 'King of the Monsters' 7" (Delirious) $7 German pop. Sale price. NEGATIVE EH 'Oceanography' 8" (Headshy) $11 "Wellington trio Negative Eh embark on a voyage over gentle waves of feedback, sailing on a fair easterly drumbeat encountering remote islands of fuzz. Appropriately transparent packaging." - Headshy. Lathe-cut acetate. Edition of 82. THE NETHER DAWN 'Whiskey Mute-Down' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $15 "Slow motion atmospheric improvised electric drone 'blues' recorded after midnight in the midst of winter. The Nether Dawn is the newest of Antony Milton's solo projects. Electronics and field recordings (of rain swept streets) mix with 'gestural' instrumentation and amp rumble. Evening music." - PA CD-R. THE NEW PECULIARS 'A More Withering Critique Than Harry Pussy' 7" (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $7 Squealy feedback, grinding shonky rhythms, simplistic lyrics, short songs on one side, long one on the other, looks like 3 of the band members are related, artwork by The Shadow Ring's Grham Lambkin - can't argue. NOETINGER | WERCHOWSKI | MARCHETTI 'S/T' CD (Corpus Hermeticum) $20 "These guys are in the fore-front of non-institutional electrocoustic music in France, these trio performances were recorded live on tour in 1998. Two half-hour slabs of solid improv el/ac music that'll open your ears good. Includes an excellent essay by Michel Henritzi, where he posits this as a 'dialogue between chance and the deaf' - couldn't put it better myself." - H Corp. JARLE NORDVIK | ANDREAS BRANDAL 'Lie on Superwater / The Generous Weeper' 7" (Smalltown Supersound) $8 More of a staccato attack than drone from this 1998 collaboration on one of the best Norwegian labels around. K.K. NULL 'Extasy Of Zero-G-Sex' CD (Vinyl Communications) $15 Solo experimentalism from Zeni Geva's front man. Sale price. THE OBLIVIANS 'Play 9 Songs with Mr Quintron' CD (Crypt) $15 Garage rock with a little gospel influence creeping up on the Oblivians. Not as loose or furious as the first couple of 10"s, but it still ain't shabby. Sale price. OMIT 'Internal' TAPE (Deep Skin) $5 The early recordings (1987-89) which as the title suggests (maybe) is a great introduction to the work of Blenheim's finest (and only?) experimental musician. OMIT 'Intromit' TAPE (Deep Skin) $5 The early recordings (1987-89) which as the title suggests (maybe) is a great introduction to the work of Blenheim's finest (and only?) experimental musician. OMIT 'Rejector' CD (Sysecular) $13 As one door closes, another opens - this is the first release from Clinton Williams on his new Sysecular label. CD-R. OMIT 'Rundowns' TAPE (Deep Skin) $5 A C60 with "normal" tape packaging. "An experiment with simple 'circular systems'". OMIT | K-GROUP 'Slow Movement' 7" (Colourful Clouds for Acoustics) $8 Collaboration between two staples of the NZ improv scene. OMIT | K GROUP 'Storage' 12" (Fusetron) $26 "Not a split release by these two New Zealand artists, but a collaboration. The weapons of choice are analogue synthesizers and the approach is slowly unfolding drones and drifting veils of sound that part and close across the listener's third ear like storms on the surface of Jupiter. During 2000 and 2001 this pair of Hidden Masters turned their efforts towards late-night kitchen jam sessions during their holiday moments. In these each would fire up an antiquated analogue synth and the resulting aural collisions would be recorded on a handy hard drive, then tweaked, inverted, eq'd and edited to produce the immaculate slabs of sound contained within the tiny grooves of this ludicrously out-dated analogue sound-reproducing format." - Bruce Russell. OMIT 'Transfusions' TAPE (Deep Skin) $5 The first release of 2000 for Omit, which is almost live. Each piece was recorded in two takes rather than the usual multi-tracked layering. OVAL | CHRISTOPHER CHARLES 'Dok' CD (Thrill Jockey) $32 PALACE MUSIC 'Arise Therefore' CD (Drag City) $25 You already know about Will Oldham, right? I gotta make room on my shelves. Sale price. PANASONIC 'Kulma' CD (Blast First) $15 The electronic experimental debut from the Scandinavian outfit who were later made to change their brand name. Sale price. PARCHED 'S/T' 12" (Secret Safari) $39 A double album of the entire recorded history of a duo consisting of Mr Bongo Bunny and the Teledude. Free feedback created with equal parts guitar and bass. Lathe cut acetate. Edition of 52. PD | (ISOFC) | K2 'Haiwian Eye Melt Down' 7" (Spite | Kinky Music Institute) $6 Don't know anything about any of these outfits, but they sure make a racket. Instrumental and vocal noise with quiet loops and droney interludes to relax the listener before the assault starts anew. PEELED HEARTS PASTE 'S/T' CD (Dual Plover) $25 PELT 'Max Meadows' CD (VHF) $27 PHALLUS 'Live to Air (Deep Throated)' CD (Lizard Mull | Locoweed) $14 Rawkus, loose punk rock from Palmerston North. CD-R. MARTIN PHILLIPPS 'Sketch Book: Volume One' CD (Flying Nun) $29 PHILOSOPHER'S STONE 'Preparation' 12" (Kranky) $19 Another Flying Saucer Attack offshoot. PHLEGM 'Live Unauthorised' CD (Jerker) $29 PIETERS / RUSSELL / STAPLETON 'Sex / Machine' CD (Metonymic) $20 Slightly less abrasive than the Corpus Hermeticum debut from a few years ago, but not in a wimpy way. Just a bit more, uh, pensive. Very odd "rock" title for this music, but I guess contradictions make life all the more interesting. PIT VIPER 'S/T' 7" (Imperial) $17 The highly contentious cover art that eclipses the issue of how good the music is. Honestly, most New Zealanders really would think it funny to see someone pissing on their burning flag. One sided 7". Edition of 150. PIT VIPER 'Wheku / Weku' 8" (Crawlspace) $21 Auckland noise trio including members of Thela and The Garbage and The Flowers. Two tracks recorded live at different venues. More restrained in both sound and packaging than the Imperial 7". Lathe-cut acetate. PLOVER 'Four-Track Recordings' 7" (Rotten Windmill) $6 Lo-fi Dutch pop from the 90's. Second edition of 100. PONY CLUB 'Days of Wine and ... Wine' 7" (Pony Club) $7 Lathe-cut acetate. PONY CLUB 'Horizon' TAPE (Pony Club) $5 POP RIVETS '1st Album' 12" (Hangman) $12 The debut from the first band that Billy Childish was in. There's only a hundred or so other albums of his around, so this one's obviously essential. Great raw garage rock. Sale price. PORK QUEEN 'Sunspot Gila' 7" (no label) $10 PRAM 'Gash' CD (World Domination) $38 PRE-EMPTIVE RETALIATION 'Elvis Pushes In...' TAPE (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $6 This might be a guy called Nigel Joseph and is probably from 1998. PRO DRAG 'Grave Robbers Are Real' CD (Stink Magnetic) $10 A re-branded "Dallas Pro-Drag Allstars" stomp out 3 new garage tunes on the last release before they support the 2004 version of MC5 in NZ. CD-R. PROVIDENCE '27.4.97' 10" (Earworm) $15 Live recording capturing a one-off collaboration between members of Flying Saucer Attack, Bardo Pond, Windy and Carl and Azusa Plane at the first Terrastock festival in 1997. Sale price. PUMICE 'Poise' TAPE (Stabbies and the Rocket) $7 PUMICE 'Weird Crab Holy Soldier' 7" (Headshy) $10 "Dunedin based (currently globetrotting) Stefan Neville sings three enchanting songs over a sadly chirpy piano, acoustic guitar and a variety of other sounds. The mood ranges from the reflective title track to the aptly named Coquettish" - Headshy. Lathe-cut acetate. Edition of 62. PUNCHBAG | UNDECISIVE GOD 'Split' TAPE (Shame File) $9 "Three slabs of processed inertia from Undecisive God. Split release with hardcore band Punchbag." - Shame File PUSSY GALORE 'Live: In The Red' CD (In The Red) $19 RAKE (NZ) 'When Your Duff is Cold and Your Belly is Empty' 7" (Yellow Bike) $2 Four tracks from a Palmy band from the early 90's. Spleen-tearing stuff or bile-inducing or some similar stomach-type desription according to Dave White. RAKE (USA) 'G-Man' CD (Das Squealer) $23 RATS WITH WINGS 'S/T' CD (Gold Soundz) $20 A Norwegian release of an Australian artist. "Absolutely fantastic electronic improviastion/scuzz/whatnot processed and collaged to a stunning effect. Insect buzz, leaking water, cranky machinery and lots of micro-sounds put together by the talented Australian Bill Burston. No "glitch", mind you. Comes in nice handmade 'slipcase' , black cardboard with pictures pasted on." - Absurd. CD-R. Limited to 100. THE RED SESSIONS 'Laughin' Gas' CD (no label) $21 Carnival, avant-lounge dub - somewhere between Arc Cafe and Kog Transmissions. An oddball Dunedinite with additional contributions from Demarnia Lloyd and Sola Monday among others. THE RESIDENTS 'Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses' CD (Rykodisc) $38 36 track double CD compilation covering their material from 1972 to 1996. Includes 36 page booklet. RHBAND 'Third Order Parasiticism' CD (Drunken Fish) $16 The debut album from this San Fransicso outfit who apparently have a fairly fluid lineup. This is more organ and loop based than the later material, sounding like an instrumental hybrid of Bardo Pond, Spacemen 3 and Thela. CD only release. RIDDLEHOUSE 'Senseless' TAPE (Yellow Bike) $1 DEAN ROBERTS 'Moth Park / Soundtracks to Utopia' CD (Formacentric) $24 ROBOTNICS CROSSING 'Trigger Happy EP' 7" (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $7 German sludge rock and vocal mess on black, grey and white marbled vinyl. Comes with a "Trigger Happy" transfer which looks like demented space invaders. RST 'Warm Planes' CD (Corpus Hermeticum) $20 "Second full-length offering from this NZ master of squeal 'n sheen guitar textures. Guaranteed to pin your head to the floor with calm, carefully abraded and composed blocks of unrelenting noise. Confounds the armchair cynics who claim the guitar is devoid of meaning, in RST's hands it is reclaimed and made to do new work creating thermal pools for your mind. Dip in." - Bruce Russell. THE RUINS 'Stonehenge' 12" (Shimmy-Disc) $7 Sale price. BRUCE RUSSELL 'Maximalist Mantra Music' CD (Crank Automotive) $20 His second solo album, recorded live in Christchurch during 1998. Instrumental improv and tape loop patter including plenty of drone, chimes and crowd noise. BRUCE RUSSELL 'Painting the Passports Brown' CD (Corpus Hermeticum) $20 "Recorded live in Melbourne in May 1999. Minidisc recordings that are a little less like recycled sump oil than the Maxi Mantra CD, y'all may find this more 'open' and easier to follow in all its finely etched detail. Live guitar and ring-modulator with analogue tape loops, includes two versions of 'Black Flies' from successive shows for comparative purposes. I think this is the best one yet, tho' the screaming sounds of massacre on the Free Spirit 10" have a charm all their own." - H Corp. BRUCE RUSSELL 'Project for a Revolution in New York' 12" (Siltbreeze) $20 First solo full-length from Dead C and A Handful of Dust member (who also ran Xpressway and runs Corpus Hermeticum). One side recruits Tom Lax (Siltbreeze boss) and Paul Toohey (Surface of the Earth & K-Group). The other is solo guitar torture. BRUCE RUSSELL 'The Movement of the Free Spirit' 10" (Smalltown Supersound) $20 "The whole solo show from Melbourne's near empty Corner Hotel from October 1999, split over two sides and wittily entitled 'The 1st Movement' and 'The 2nd...'. This is heavy-duty guitar abuse and live 'real time' tape-loops that sound like bulldozers being ground up for dogfood. What passes around these parts for 'cathartic'. Cover drawing by my son Louis. Back cover features a photo of me by the sign marking the village of 'Bruce Rocks'." - H Corp. Limited to 500. SANDOZ LAB TECHNICIANS 'Microverse Wallpaper / Deep Blue Giant' 7" (20 City) $11 Sandoz break out the toy instruments and studio toys for this short sojourn into another reality. Psychedelia gone a little askew. Nice thick white vinyl. SCHAWAMI 'Great Southern Dogfight / Mycelium Sky Song' 8" (Secret Safari) $11 Two tracks of drone, didgeridoo and spasmodic vocals. Primal and free. Lathe-cut acetate. Second (not hand-painted) edition. SCORCHED EARTH POLICY 'Keep Away From The Wires' CD (Medication) $23 A compilation of both Flying Nun EP's, seven live tracks and a studio out-take from this seminal Christchurch 80's garage/rock (not to be confused with garage-rock) band. SEHT 'Dronemusic' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $15 "The absolute masterwork of Stephen Clover, better known to some for his magnificent lathe cuts under the names Logstore and The Longshoremen. An engaging collection of hovering tones and location-specific shuffles that make the title 'Dronemusic' seem a little describing Antarctica as 'white'. Urban mytholgies, hum-drum mysticisms, and the alchemy of the national grid." - C/Psi/P CD-R. SEHT 'Goodbye America and Have a Nice Day' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $13 "CD release of a work originally commisioned and created for the 'Connected' exhibition in Wellington, NZ. Treating 'Dronemusic' (his 2000 release on Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon) as a point of departure seht has reinterpreted some of its tracks and bedded them down in a dreamscape constructed of field-recordings, piano improv & minimalist electronics to create a narrative journey which is at once sublime yet not without its lighter moments." - Pseudo Arcana. CD-R in cardboard sleeve. SENTIMENTAL PLASTIC 'Earthed' CD (Cabbage Tree) $14 Six tracks from the ex-Livids brotherly duo of Sean and Regan O'Brien. CD-R. SEROTONIN 'Cluster' CD (Pivot) $16 Instrumental road music with one foot firmly planted in prog, the other in indie rock. Imagine somewhere between June of '44, 3D's, Cul de Sac and King Crimson. It's almost driving at times, but is a bit too relaxed to work up an angry energy. At times there is a countryish pop feel similar to that which Pell Mell evokes, while the exploratory widdling at times hints that perhaps it's no coincidence that the album title takes the same name as a German psych/prog outfit. SF 'Cat Face' 7" (Flying Nun) $3 SFERIC EXPERIMENT 'Eight Miles' CD (Drunken Fish) $27 THE SHADOW RING 'Hold Onto I.D' CD (Siltbreeze) $32 SHIPPING NEWS 'Save Everything' CD (Quarterstick) $35 Debut album from Jeff Muller and Jason Noble's new band. More cohesive, less raw energy than their previous combined efforts in Rodan. SHOESHINE | THE ASHVINS 'Wide Load / Heavy load' CD (Spotty Dog) $5 THE SIDE EFFECTS 'Gold Apache' CD (Kato) $20 This album originally came out on Stink Magnetic as a CD-R and Kato liked it so much they've re-released it... as a CD-R. CD-R. SIGHTINGS 'Or What' 7" (Freedom From...) $13 Current punk rock that isn't crappily melodic. Not as messy as Harry Pussy, but they still sound like they mean it. Says its s'posed to be a 33, but it sounds too good at 45 to believe it. 4 tracks. SILVERFISH 'Fat Axl' CD (Touch & Go) $12 Sale price. SKREE 'Fat Mouth Shouts Out' CD (Freek) $35 SLAP HAPPY HUMPHREY 'S/T' CD (Public Bath) $15 A very weird piece of Japanese culture - sweet pop interspersed with noise and no attempt is made to reconcile the differences between the two. Sale price. SLEEP 'Ghostwriting' CD (Metonymic) $24 A subdued but enveloping batch of improv tracks from this Port Chalmers quartet boasting Pieters, Stapleton, Thompson (Sandoz Lab Tech's) and Ballard (unknown previous outfits). A new high point for Metonymic. SMALL BLUE TORCH 'S/T' CD (Last Visible Dog) $26 Double CD-R. SOLID GOLD HELL 'Swingin Hot Murder' 12" (Flying Nun) $13 From the ashes of S.P.U.D. spewed this debut from NZ's equivalent of The Jesus Lizard, punch drunk, stumblin' along. Sale price. SOLID GOLD HELL 'The Blood And The Pity' 12" (Flying Nun) $13 The follow-up to Swingin' Hot Murder - this one stumbles along a slightly more obvous path, but they still know how to rock. Sale price. SOLIDS 'The Possible Human' CD (Spill | FTSM) $19 This 3-piece improv outfit played and recorded in Melbourne between 1994 and 1999, before mutating into Hi-God People. This posthumous disc compiles edits from earlier releases with unreleased recordings and it's a fine dose of the more understated side of Aussie improv noise. SOLMANIA 'Evil Bed' CD (Alchemy) $25 SOLVER 'XYZ' CD (Freeway Sound) $20 "This Australian thing is getting out of hand, John Nixon and Marco Fusinato are primarily visual artists, with a long interest in sound but as a medium of expression. Here they take on the two untutored guitar thing and wrestle it to the ground in fine style, inaugurating a new label in the process. Good looking and fierce sounding, best way to go in my atlas." - Bruce Russell. SONE 'The Dense Sense' CD $15 SONIC YOUTH 'Bad Moon Rising' CD (Geffen) $15 Includes Flower/Halloween EP and other extra tracks. Sale price. SONIC YOUTH 'Sister' CD (Geffen) $22 SONIC YOUTH 'Slaapkamers Met Slagroom' CD (Sonic Youth) $15 Sale price. SONIC YOUTH 'Washing Machine' CD (Geffen) $15 Amidst a swarm of less accessible albums on Sonic Youth's own label emerged some easier listening pop on a major label. Sale price. SOUNDSMITH 'Aquanaut' CD (Wurlitzer Jukebox) $35 SPACE DUST 'Dust '93' TAPE (Stink Magnetic) $10 This is a fine introduction to the band as it compiles 6 previously released tracks (although only 5 are 'fessed up to) from 4 different releases. It also adds a(nother) Hawkwind cover and a solitary new SD song which perhaps a cleverly devised ploy to also appeal to those who are already spaced out converts. Oh yeah, and you have to assemble the tape yourself from the components provided as well, which isn't too tricky - they could've made it really tricky and made you put stickers on and wind the tape yourself, but that's not the sorta active stuff that Space Dust makes you feel like doing. THE STABS 'Wading / That's It' 7" (Weather Records) $10 The debut release from Melbourne's finest, loosest rawk outfit. Hopefully they can stop fighting with each other long enough to record and release something else. STAR FACTORY 'Totally Limited Baby Blue' TAPE (Stink Magnetic) $5 Has anyone cornered the "garage glam" genre yet? Well in that , we have the prime contenders here. They groove and rock in a funky kinda way, with the final instrumental a conspicuous but pleasant deviation from the rest of the tape. C20, I reckon. RIK STARRR 'A Sort Of Holiday' 7" (Flying Nun) $5 STARS OF THE LID 'Manoeuvering the Nocturnal Hum' 12" (Earworm) $26 KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN 'Kontakte' CD (Ecstatic Peace) $24 SUBS 'We're Going Like the Clappers' TAPE (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $6 "Electro synth-pop from Marky Loo Loo and Paula Hayes." - BWCD. Side 1 of this tape is super-cheesy, very earnest synth-pop. I was only going to recommend this tape to anyone who could appreciate a low-fi Human League, but... Side 2 slowly reveals the artists as somewhat less stable than I had thought and it gets gradually more bent as the tape progresses. Definitely an acquired taste, but not as dire as if the whole tape was like the first side. YMA SUMAC 'Mambo! and More' CD (Revola) $19 SUNKEN 'untitled' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $15 "The debut release by Stefan (Pumice) Neville and Antony Milton features longplayer drones built from the interplay between 2 reed organs (and various gadgets- tapeloops, intercom, contact mics). The end result is an ecstatically transcendent and strangely luminous hour of music." - Pseudo Arcana. CD-R. SUNSHIP 'Destroyer' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $21 "A pretty aptly named new release from the New Zealand band voted 'most likely to die from a dog attack'. Taking a left turn from their previous EPs hacked up stew of broken leads and tuning disasters, 'Destroyer' features an utterly suicidal live show in its incomprehensibly violent, hideous, entirety." - Campbell Kneale. CD-R. Edition of 30. SWAGGER JACK 'Free Today, & Tomorrow..' CD (Pseudo Arcana | Wire Bridge) $10 Lovely little acoustic pop ditties - Pumice seems like a pretty fair comparison to me, but of course Mr Milton has his own thing going on. "Recorded as a 'day-tape' 'Free Today, & Tomorrow' unearths the character of Swagger Jack as he wends his lonely way around the backroads and 'rest-areas' (picnic spots where one can usually camp a few days for free) of New Zealand. He's old enough, and wise enough, to know better (it is 2001 after all) but he just doesn't seem to be able to give up his great romantic dream of freedom, or lose his passion for recording his rattley folksongs onto an old car battery powered 4-track. Sometimes ecstatic, sometimes meditative, but always, well, 'textured' and original. This guy needs your support lest he wind up busking on the streets of a smelly city, his true genius unappreciated by those less romantic than himself. 7 songs. Each one unique." - Wire Bridge. Clocks in around 17 minutes. CD-R in cardboard sleeve. SWAGGER JACK 'Gorse' CD (Pseudo Arcana | Wire Bridge) $13 "New full-length from that old hillbilly Swagger Jack. All acoustic rattle-'n-roll; happy, sad, poignant; and downright nasty if you rub him up the right way. 10 new songs to drive you through the countryside." - Wire Bridge. CD-R in cardboard sleeve. TALL DWARFS 'Fork Songs' CD (Flying Nun) $9 Sale price. TALL DWARFS 'Stumpy' 12" (Flying Nun) $21 LP + EP. TAR 'Over And Out' 12" (Touch & Go) $15 CD (Touch & Go) $15 Sale price. TEMPLE OF BON MATIN 'Enduro' CD (Bulb) $22 MATTHEW THOMAS 'Architecture' CD (Undefined Recordings) $27 THREE '1' CD (20 City) $17 "Displays of excellence in guitar manipulation. Winding and screaming feedback that works itself into beautifully melodic pieces of sound." - 20 City. CD-R. THREE '2' CD (20 City) $17 "Peaceful, large and drifting details of tones and noises that creep up on your stereo. No obvious use of guitars though apparently they are there. Multiple layers of quiet noise and subtle happenings." - 20 City. CD-R. TINNITUS 'Futures Past' CD (Flying Nun) $12 Industrial band from Auckland. Sale price. TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. 'Helen Bute Vs. Masonna Pussy Badsmell' CD (Full Contact) $25 (1996) TO LIVE AND SHAVE IN L.A. 'Tonal Harmony' CD (Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers) $14 Twenty minutes of the infamous Tom Smith collaborating with 5 noisy folks who pump out the finest TL&S release I've heard. The artwork doesn't show Tom naked which you can take as a positive or negative depending on your point of view. Cardboard sleeve. (1997) STEPHEN TODD | RICHARD YOUNGS 'Georgians' CD (VHF) $27 TONO-BUNGAY 'Rough Music' 12" (Twisted Village) $18 TONY VALENS AND THE INCISIONS 'S/T' 7" (C.M. Productions) $11 C.M. members under assumed names playing lots of 1 and a 1/2 min psychedelic Rock 'n' Roll. Reminiscent of Blue Cheer and Link Wray. TORTOISE & THE EX 'In The Fishtank' 12" (Konkurrent) $20 Part of Konkurrent's series of releases which bands are invited to record while on tour in Holland. "Each band is given 2 days to put on 24 tracks 20-30 minutes of whatever they want: regular songs, alternate versions, improv pieces - you know, whatever. Here you get Chicago fusion blow-masters Tortoise joining with Dutch tension dynamos for six cuts of atmospheric, intuitive, uh, music." TOTAL 'Sky Blue Void' CD (Freek) $29 TRANSMISSION 'S/T' CD (Audible Hiss) $37 Adris Hoyos (Harry Pussy) with Graham Lambkin (Shadow Ring). TRASH 'Gritt And Butts' CD (Turbulence) $25 TRASH 'Mihiwaka' CD (IMD) $19 TROUGH 'Avondale Race Ten' 7" (Spotty Dog) $10 A limited number of returns have come back our way. What's wrong with these Wellington consumers. Lathe cut acetate - edition of 26. TROUGH 'Depressor' 8" (Headshy) $11 "Andrew Carey and Regan O'Brien (both ex-Livids) follow up their Spotty Dog 7" with two droney guitar/drum instrumentals and a jaunty piano duet." - Headshy. Lathe-cut acetate. Edition of 56. TROUGH 'Pukemymoremore' 8" (Spotty Dog) $11 The final installment of the Trough acetate trilogy. Four undulating tracks to wade into with your gumboots on. Lathe cut acetate. Edition of 28. TSUNAMI BAND 'S/T' TAPE (Orange) $8 TWENTY MILES 'S/T' CD (Fat Possum) $15 Judah Bauer (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) playing rawk 'n' roll with his brother and others. Sale price. ULTRA BIDE 'God Is God, Puke Is Puke' 12" (Alternative Tentacles) $11 And Japan has a unique and uncompromising take on punk rock. Sale price. UNDECISIVE GOD '(_the_war_against_sleep_)' TAPE (Shame File) $11 "Over 40 minutes of material exploring a subconscious journey to awaken from the mundane to the true possibilities of life. Comes in nice card box." - Shame File UNDECISIVE GOD 'Purple Silk and Yellowed Clothes' TAPE (Shame File) $9 "Over an hour of new Undecisive God material. Etheral guitar, multi-layered feedback, haunting noise." - Shame File UNDECISIVE GOD 'S/T' CD (Shame File) $14 "The accumulation of a decade of recording results in this CD release, exploring the sonic limits of guitar sound, from ambient meditations to grinding extremes. The definitive Undecisive God release." - Shame File UNDECISIVE GOD | PUNCHBAG 'Split' TAPE (Shame File) $9 "Three slabs of processed inertia from Undecisive God. Split release with hardcore band Punchbag." - Shame File UNDECISIVE GOD 'The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge' TAPE (Shame File) $9 "50 minutes of darkly ambient experimental noise. A soundtrack for your dreams and nightmares." - Shame File UNDECISIVE GOD 'The Difference Between Light and Shadow' TAPE (Shame File) $9 "Debut release from Melbourne ambient and experimental project." - Shame File UNIVERSAL JOINT 'S/T' 8" (Headshy) $11 The debut from this ex-Meat Market duo originally hailing from Levin / Wanganui (now based in Palmerston North / Melbourne). Guitar, drums and cornet were the weapons of choice for these recordings, but only the drums survive, so future recordings are bound to be different. Lathe-cut acetate. Edition of 31. UNWOUND 'Fake Train' 12" (Kill Rock Stars) $12 Sale price. US MAPLE 'Long Hair In Three Stages' CD (Skin Graft) $25 VOLVOX 'Bad Earth' CD (Dual Plover | Freedom From | Spill) $19 Part two in the trilogy of posthumous releases for this bunch of Melbourne misfits who performed (in every sense as far as I can gather) in the first half of the 1990's. VOLVOX 'The Damage Begins at the Mouth' CD (Dual Plover | Spill) $19 The first of three retrospective releases commemorating the life of this confrontational Melbourne outfit. VOODOO SAVAGE AND HIS SAVAGES 'S/T' CD (Stink Magnetic) $10 Primitive rock from a fairly unevolved looking bunch - another 3 track CD-EP from Stink Magnetic. CD-R. TOM WAITS 'On Heart Attack and Vine' CD (Elektra) $15 Classic Waits from 1980. Sale price. TOM WAITS 'The Early Years vol 1' CD (Torn & Frayed) $11 13 tracks recorded in 1971 before Tom Waits was "Tom Waits". Sale price. WERCHOWSKI | MARCHETTI | NOETINGER 'S/T' CD (Corpus Hermeticum) $20 "These guys are in the fore-front of non-institutional electrocoustic music in France, these trio performances were recorded live on tour in 1998. Two half-hour slabs of solid improv el/ac music that'll open your ears good. Includes an excellent essay by Michel Henritzi, where he posits this as a 'dialogue between chance and the deaf' - couldn't put it better myself." - H Corp. PAUL WICKHAM | CAMPBELL KNEALE | GREG LARKING | PETE LARKING | ANTONY MILTON 'Siren Performance' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $13 "With Campbell Kneale (electronics), Paul Wickham (guitar) and Pete Larking (bass). Not to be confused with the 'Siren's' cassette, (tho' liable to be...) this recording documents a sound installation that was in place at the Enjoy Gallery in Wellington in 2000. 4 identical CD's with simple oscillating tones as sampled and manipulated from a historical recording of an air-raid siren were played slightly out of sync with each other in order to produce a complex sound environment. The exhibition was closed with the improvised performance that is also documented on this recording." - Pseudo Arcana. CD-R. WIO 'I Can See Where I am Now' 12" (K-RAA-K) $15 A Belgian guy doing what Sebadoh used to. Beautiful pop songs with liberal doses of experimentalism. Pop, noise, electronics - this has it all. Sale price. WITCYST 'Wince Mince' 7" (Root Don Lonie For Cash) $16 Lathe cut acetate. PETER WRIGHT 'A Tiny Camp In The Wilderness' CD (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon) $15 "You can almost smell the wide open space around Peter Wright's sparse encampment. Electric and acoustic tectonic shifts that may or may not have been recorded at 4am in a Presbytarian retirement village at the top of a very tall tree. Wonderful." - C/Psi/P CD-R. PETER WRIGHT 'Automaton' CD (Apoplexy) $14 "Using guitars, violin, electronics, voices and a variety of bottles (bowed, suspended or otherwise), seven haunting tapestries are woven of dark, droning sound, distant melodies submerged in a sea of drones, a place of silence and noise, of stillness and motion." - Richard di Santo (Incursion). CD-R, Edition of 50. PETER WRIGHT 'Clavius' 7" (20 City) $11 Brooding malevolent drones. Thick Czech vinyl. PETER WRIGHT 'Coitus' CD (KRKRKRK) $20 "This CD, the final in the four disc PW retrospective, reflects the influence of Wright's involvement with industrial art rockers Leonard Nimoy, showcasing a harder, louder, noisier & more metallic sound. To emphasize this difference, Wright re-named his project Coitus although he only released one short cassette of this music under this moniker in 1996 before giving up structured music for several years. Despite the industrial overtones of the CD there are still moments of beauty that point to future projects, including 'The Deathly Silence' which is the original template for Wright's current band The Beautiful Losers." - Apoplexy. CD-R, PETER WRIGHT 'Distant Bombs' CD (Apoplexy) $14 "Constructed loop-based recordings made in 1996. Originally available in a slightly different form as 'Glass Cage' on kRkRkRk, this version cuts out some of the tracks that didn't quite work." - Apoplexy. CD-R, Edition of 50. PETER WRIGHT 'In Vitro 1' CD (KRKRKRK) $20 "In Vitro No. 1, the second in a four disc set, reissues the bulk of the original In Vitro cassette on kRkRkRk, along with the best moments from it's immediate predecessor, Haggis, all recorded in 1994 and remixed/remastered late 2001." - Apoplexy. CD-R, PETER WRIGHT 'Radioplay' CD (Apoplexy) $14 "A shortwave radio piece in 3 parts." - Apoplexy. CD-R, Edition of 50. PETER WRIGHT 'Synocopate' CD (Apoplexy) $14 The first Peter Wright recordings to deal specifically with minimal electronic music and a platform for later projects including Polio. CD-R, Edition of 50. RICHARD YOUNGS | STEPHEN TODD 'Georgians' CD (VHF) $27 RICHARD YOUNGS | BRIAN LAVELLE 'Radios 2' CD (Freek) $35 ZENI GEVA 'Freedom Bondage' CD (Alternative Tentacles) $18 The 1995 powerhouse album from one of Japan's (or anywhere's) most pummeling outfits. Sale price. V/A 'Aalborg Noise Jihad' CD (DNA) $14 Experimental artists from Aalborg, Denmark have a crack at the 4-band CD. Features Marquis Conspirator (ambient electronics), Luca Brasi's Revenge (soothing drones and low feedback), Kummerlige Forhold (harsh noise wtih minimal room to breathe between onsalaughts) and MaaletHelligerMidlet666 (abrasive electronics interspersed with skritchy noises and minimal rumbles). V/A 'Arc Music of Dunedin' CD (Arclife) $14 The 1998 compilation that first exposed Dunedin's Arc cafe to the world. 18 tracks from the likes of Alastair Galbraith, Peter Gutteridge, Cloudboy, Suka, Mink, Slate, Demarnia Lloyd, Jay Clarkson... V/A 'Ashtray Navigations/Sandoz Lab Technicians/R.O.T./Toss' CD (Veglia) $20 "Excellent compilation from this new Belgian label in the K-RAA-K axis. R.O.T. and Toss are the pride of Belgian 'post-rock' following up here on the excellent Toss LP of a while back." - Bruce Russell. V/A 'Avalanche' CD (Failsafe) $19 TAPE (Failsafe) $9 A few tracks each from Supertanker, Love's Ugly Children, Pumpkinhead and Lurch. V/A 'Behind Closed Doors : Australian Home-Recorded Experiments' CD (Shame File) $14 "Australian home-recording artists come together to form a collection of the cutting edge of experimental music. The real home of the musical avant garde is in bedrooms and garages around the country, often heard by only a few. Artists include Fenetik, Human Host, Kill, NeTE, Parasiticus Dei, Undecisive God, Isomer, Anna and Kettle." - Shame File V/A 'Bottom of the World' 7" (Fisheye) $8 A fortunate restock of the 7" which was originally intended as a companion to "Le Jazz Non", this is finally out and in its second pressing of 100. Be quick is my advice. Features Omit, RST, Sandoz Lab Technicians, Surface of the Earth. V/A 'Drag City Hour' CD (Sea Note) $26 Radio show featuring Palace Brothers, Smog, Royal Trux. V/A 'Excommunicated' CD (Celibate Fighting Monks) $9 Palmerston North compilation from 1996. V/A 'Flying Way Too High' CD (Arclife) $14 The third compilation in three years from Arc cafe, featuring David Kilgour, MaryRose Crook, Kitset, Demarnia Lloyd, Mestar, Suka and a dozen other Dunedin artists. V/A 'Fridge, The' CD (Fridge) $9 Hamilton compilation from 1995 including Wendyhouse, Inchworm, Dribbly Cat Attraction, Dean and a few others. V/A 'Galleries 4-6' CD (20 City) $22 10" (20 City) $69 Doe, Eso Steel, Birchville Cat Motel. Compilation of the second "Galleries" series of lathe-cut 10"s on 20 City. Triple 10". Lathe-cut acetate. Edition of 40. V/A 'Hard Of Hearing 1' TAPE (Spotty Dog) $7 Blunt, Livids and Rake. V/A 'Hard Of Hearing 3' TAPE (Spotty Dog) $7 Featuring Dog Tooth Violet, Paranymph & Vortex Victims. V/A 'Hate Your Neighbours' 12" (Zero | Pussymuncher) $23 Early punk compilation with Proud Scum, Suburban Reptiles, Toy Love, Nocturnal Projections. V/A 'Information' CD (Imperial) $20 "Compilation of various under-represnted NZ artists, and the ubiquitous and over-compiled BR. Includes Pit Viper, White Saucer, Lovely Midget, Rosy Parlane and others. All top-knotch extreme noise." - Bruce Russell. V/A 'Kitsch 'n' Sync' CD (Nihilator) $13 US compilation featuring Coctails, Loomer and NZ bands Meat Market, The Ashvins and The Livids. V/A 'Le Jazz Non (Norway)' CD (Smalltown Supersound) $16 "Great concept, a 'reply' to our compilation, and its a cracker. High production values, lovely design, liner notes by me. Start here if you've resisted Norway up till now... Lass Marhaug, Larmoyant, Kjetil DB, Fibo Trespo, Two Shot Sons, Continental Fruit, Del, Der Brief, Elektro Nova,Jazzkammer, Arm, Supersilent. Magic, this country has it all." - H Corp. Sale price. V/A 'Live at The Space 12-4-2002' TAPE (Pseudo Arcana | Wire Bridge) $8 "Edited highlights from a superb night out in the capital. Rocking lo-fi distorto-folk from Pumice & Swagger Jack, the Mr Sterile Ensemble cram a week long carnival into 20 minutes, & Demarnia Lloyd has us floating about the ceiling with her sparse and sublime solo set. An eclectic must-have." - Wire Bridge. V/A 'Live to Air' CD (Radio Massey) $10 One track each from 15 bands who played 'live-to-air' on Radio Massey's regualr thursday evening slot during 1998. Artists include Brother Love, Meat Market, Half, Fader, Dallas Pro-Drag Allstars. V/A 'Lounge Ax Defense & Relocation CD' CD (Touch & Go) $19 Benefit release to help a venue that's now closed down cover legal costs - so I guess the money's going elsewhere. Features Shellac, Jesus Lizard, Guided by Voices, Sebadoh, Tortoise and many more. Sale price. V/A 'Manifestation vol 7' CD (Awefull) $9 Texas compilation featuring NZ bands Meat Market and Froithead, as well as Crawl Unit, Mata Hari, Cecilia, Fragmented, Head and Pleasure Center. V/A 'Molokoi' 7" (High Tension House) $8 TAPE (High Tension House) $8 "Compilation of abstract Christchurch music, covering electro-acoustic, jazz, electronic, poetry, free jizz, skronk, spastic and ambient musics. Those who lurk around altars picking up scraps of food are CM Group, Lynton Denovan (Satan's Pitbull), Hiatus, Nick Hodgson, Charles Horn, the Lost Found Sound, Luxor Dance Ensemble, Richard Neave, Hamish Noonan, Oistraka, Danielle O'Halloran, Ben Parsons, Periscope, Space Luxor, Peter Wright (Atonal Death), The Air." V/A 'Mutant' CD (Radio Massey) $10 A compilation of Palmerston North artists put together by the local student radio station. Includes Meat Market, Bongo Bunny, Cancer Maidens, Bing Turkby, Sud and yours truly. CD-R. V/A 'Night of Satan's Sidekicks' 7" (Stink Magnetic) $9 A track each from Helvis, Rev Mardy Pune and Shit All to Hell live at the sadly shortlived Hell's Kitchen cafe/venue in Palmerston North - recorded on Friday 13th, 1999. Lathe-cut acetate. V/A 'Night Passage Demixed' CD (Dorobo) $34 Remixes of Alan Lamb's field recordings of telegraph wires by Ryoji Ikeda, Thomas Koner, Lustmord and Bernhard Gunter. V/A 'Out Of The Yellow Eye' CD (Yellow Eye) $9 1992 Dunedin 4-band compilation featuring My Deviant Daughter, Cynthia Should, Weetbix Boys, Funhouse. All round nice pop. V/A 'Pseudopodia' CD (Yellow Bike) $20 1992 Palmerston North compilation featuring a few tracks each from Rake, Froithead, Sausage Roll and Ethiopian Lard Farmers. V/A 'Re-Birth Of Fool vol 1' CD (Dual Plover) $15 Australian compilation featuring Merzbow, Sportsbra, The Faxed Head, Menstruation Sisters. Sale price. V/A 'Soft Love - A Tribute to Soft Cell' CD (555) $19 Kinda glitch, kinda synthy, kinda silly. Includes New Waver, Huon and a dozen other outfits I've never heard of. One way or another, it won't be in stock for long. V/A 'Sound in the Absence of Light : Behind Closed Doors Live' CD (Shame File) $14 "A live recording of the Behind Closed Doors CD launch in which contributors to that compilation collaborated to create an enormous orchestral sound piece. Collaborators include members of Undecisive God, Human Host, Isomer, Fenetik, Parasticus Dei and Anna." - Shame File V/A 'State Of The Union' CD (Atavistic) $36 Double CD with 147 tracks featuring Thurston Moore, John Zorn, Allen Ginsberg, God is my Co-Pilot, DJ Spooky, Ui and so much more. V/A 'Street=X2' CD (Pseudo Arcana) $13 "A name-check of the Wellington district noise-nics re-interpret all that is implied by the concept of the 'remix' via the catalyst of the "Street" peoples finest. Remixes from Birchville Cat Motel, seht, A.M, Kieran Monaghan, 3rd Octave Band, and more." - Pseudo Arcana. CD-R in plastic sleeve. V/A 'Swamp' CD (no label) $3 1998 Palmerston North compilation put out by the local student radio station. V/A 'We'll Sail Out Far... Maybe A Little Too Far' 12" (Apartment) $50 Mostly NZ, US and Norwegian artists including Sandoz Lab Technicians, Pumice, Thurston Moore and the Mountain Goats. Two LPs and a 7". KIWI ROCK BOOK $34 DAVE WHITE 'Bad Acid Soundtracks' BOOK $33 BANANAFISH '#15' MAG $20 CD features 2 tracks by defunct Melbourne outfit Volvox and one by Sydney's Rats with Wings, among others. Reviews, silly stuff... you know the drill. BANANAFISH '#16' MAG $20 Interviews with Sydney's Oren Ambarchi, NZ's Parmentier and Paul Winstanley among others. Stacks of reviews and a CD featuring Rosy Parlane, Dion Workman (both Parmentier & ex-Thela) and Oren Ambarchi (again, among others). DEAD WEIGHT '#1' ZINE $3 First issue of this Auckland zine covering a wide range of underground NZ happenings. POPWATCH '#10' ZINE $12 SAMPLE '#15 (summer 97)' ZINE $3 SKREE FROM THE UG ZONE ZINE $2 ----------------------------- Teledu Records PO Box 2028 Lygon St North Brunswick East VIC 3057 Australia Tel: +61-3-93872668 Email: paul@teledurecords.com http://teledurecords.com